With the PlayStation 4 right around the corner, ('Holiday 2013' which really means Black Friday) I wonder why developers are still releasing games for the PlayStation 3. Yeah, I know it's just a money marketing thing, release the game for the PlayStation 3, release the PS4, re-release the game for PS4 and make double the amount of money.

In IGN's recent post, “PlayStation 4 Not Backwards Compatible With Retail or Digital Games: A new console bring a new, dedicated ecosystem.” by Colin Moriarty

“In a roundtable conversation with journalists, President of Sony's Worldwide Studios noted that PS3 games of the retail and downloadable variety will not be compatible with PlayStation 4, at least not natively. In other words, your PS3 discs won't work in the new console nor will the games you downloaded....”

He goes on to say,

“There's a catch, though: emulation. The PlayStation 3 doesn't read PlayStation 2 discs (at least not anymore), but it can play PS2 games via the PlayStation Store in an emulated environment. Yoshida concedes that this is possible for PlayStation 4 supporting legacy PlayStation consoles as well....”

So, that's what I'm trying to figure out why would any gamer in their right mind buy a game that they will have to buy again if they want to play it on the PlayStation 4. At lease with the first gen PlayStation 3 it was PlayStation 2 backwards comparable and games were being released for both the PS3 and PS2. I thought that was really cool, it gave gamers a chance to still play the new games, but on the older system they have.

I will, no doubt, buy the PlayStation 4, but I really am to wonder what to do with my stack of soon to be obsolete games, let alone my downloaded games... Anyone want to buy some PlayStation 3 relics?